Top 5 World's Most Expensive Chocolates

From all around the world, here are some of the most expensive chocolates. Some created by the world's most famous chocolatiers

Number 5: Richart’s Intense Valentine Gourmet Chocolates

Price: $77

Paying $77 for 49 chocolates from this French chocolatier is a bargain. Each piece — in a shell of Venezuelan 73-percent dark chocolate and featuring Criollo cacao — flaunts one of seven aromas: balsam, roasted, fruity, citrus, floral, spicy and herbal. Also included is a 73-percent dark chocolate plaque to declare one’s love, and to nibble in tandem.

Number 4: Knipschildt Chocolatier’s Madeline truffle

Price: $250

Stuffed with a French Perigord truffle and crafted from 71% single-bean Ecuadorean dark-chocolate, this 1.5-ounce truffle is the Norwalk, Conn., chocolatier’s highest-priced delicacy. A rich cream infused with vanilla pods and Italian truffle oil is folded into the ganache for a day, but the real prize in this chocolate is the truffle, which costs $1,000 per pound.

Number 3: To’ak Chocolate’s 2014-harvest 50-gram bar

Price: $260

Only 574 bars of this, USDA-organic, 81% dark chocolate were made from the 2014 harvest, and each comes packaged with a Spanish elm box engraved with the bar number. It’s a love letter from To’ak co-founder Jerry Toth, a Chicago native who has a house in Ecuador. It was there that he got the idea for To’ak, the cacao culled from a 1,000-acre forest featuring trees that survived the 1916 “Witch’s Broom” disease, a fungi-causing deformity that makes the tree grow clusters of shoots by fungi that look like brooms.

Number 2: DeLafée of Switzerland’s Gold Chocolate Box

Price: $330

Edible 24-karat gold flakes are wrapped into the chocolate, but that’s not the only gold in this goodie. It comes with a gold coin from the Swiss national bank that was minted between 1910 and 1920 and is valued at $133. Another reason for the steep price is craftsmanship. “We apply each gold leaf by hand,” the chocolatier says. Then it goes a step further by packaging it in a silk-draped wood box.

Number 1: Debauve & Gallais Le Livre

Price: $550

To commemorate this French chocolatier’s 200th anniversaire in 2000, “Le Livre” (book, in French) debuted. Thirty-five chocolates (a mix of ganaches and pralines) are arranged in a gold-embossed leather box that resembles a handsome book, more like an encyclopedia. Fifteen years later, this beauty is still in the chocolatier’s portfolio, which also features truffles, bonbons, hot-chocolate chips, white-chocolate bars and “Pistoles De Marie Antoinettes” (gold coins).

SOURCE : http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2015/02/06/6-world-s-most-expensive-chocolates.html